Virtual Enterprise Organisation

Virtual enterprises is a “workspace” located on the internet world, where an individual can complete the tasks necessary to carry out a professional or personal business without having a “physical” business location. In other words, this way it would cost a little less than an actual offline enterprises, since all we needed were an internet connection as the main source. Advanced manufacturing concepts such as CIM, “Concurrent Engineering”, “Agile Manufacturing” and “Virtual Enterprise ” have emerged. The main types of VE and especially the Consortium VE type are considered. The primary concern with VE is the overall control. A distributed and non-hierarchic control structure for a Consortium VE, allowing tasks distribution and product development management, is proposed with a multi-agent system based solution with self-organisation abilities.

The main functions of special automated system for airframe inspection problem development and a numerical example are described. Parameters of fatigue cracks growth model should be estimated by processing of airframe full-scale fatigue test results. For the choice of periodicity a minimax solution are offered. The calculations are complex enough so by the use of the Delphi’s integrated development environment an automated system for inspection planning is developed.

Reference:

• Martinez, M. T., Fouletier, P., Park, K. H., & Favrel, J. (2001). Virtual enterprise–organisation, evolution and control. International journal of production economics, 74(1-3), 225-238.

• Park, K. H., & Favrel, J. (1999). Virtual enterprise—Information system and networking solution. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 37(1-2), 441-444.